Subject: Adult Question young people please do no |
Bible Note: Parable, as an English major I submit that it has been my training and experience that writers of both secular and sacred works use words as vehicles by which to convey thoughts, and that it is not their burden to supply a definition alongside those words, although a contextual analysis of the passage in which the word appears, or of the entire context of the whole opus frequently, but not always, gives us a fairly good clue to its intended meaning. Therefore, it is not infrequently desirable but necessary to consult a good dictionary for both the exact meanings and the etymology of words. .... In all of Old Testament Scripture in which the Hebrew idiom traditionally translated "knew his wife" is used -- the first instance of which appears in Genesis 4:1 "Adam knew Eve his wife" -- it pertains to normal sexual union, i.e., coitus, between a husband and his wife: "and she conceived and bore Cain." [Conception is not the result of oral sex.] Accordingly, one's burden is not to attempt to justify other forms of sexual behavior, many of which the Bible soundly condemns as being perversions, but to show that they fall into the same category as coitus between husband and wife, which is the only form of sexual activity that the Bible explicity sanctions. The Bible does not attempt to catalog in detail every sin and aberration of which man is capable, but one is hard pressed to justify biblically, regardless of what the mores of a permissive society dictate, any other sexual act except the act of coitus which God has made clear that He both sanctions and encourages, but which He has expressly reserved for the marriage bed. --Hank |